Mumbai, Mar 20 (PTI) Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says he is
suffering from a strained neck and it is an old medical
problem that has flared up again.

The 74-year-old actor, who was seen wearing a neck brace
to his daughter-in-law and actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's
father's funeral, wrote on his blog that his cervical has
suffered damage after doing action sequences over the years.

"Many have, yes, seen the picture with the neck brace and
have expressed either exclamation or remedy, or surprise... It
is factual and it is on my neck, because the neck is strained.

"These are recurrences of old action and stunt injuries
right from the time of 'Don' and several other films that came
after and that have involved my physical movements for action
deeds going horribly wrong," writes Bachchan.

He says medical help available to the actors today was
absent in his heyday.

"In our time we never had the benefit of safety
devises... it was raw, it was real and it was injury centric
... We jumped from heights without protection, without soft
landing gear, without harnesses," writes the "Pink" star.

He also says thanks to the VFX technique, actors are in
safer hands today.

Bachchan continues, "Difficult bike sequences, which
involve dangerous riding skills are never with the leading man
- most insurance companies do not allow that, but that is a
different matter - they are done with duplicates and the face
replaced with that of the leading man... The intervention of
special effects have made life and work easy."

"The cervical has undergone so many damage inflicting
stunts that several vertebrae are damaged, out of position,
infected with trauma, and several other complicated medical
terminology which I just cannot understand," adds Bachchan.